Legal admonition

Author: (English) Lord Denning
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Publish Date: 1999-11-01
Features: Lord Denning was both a judge and a scholar, but he was more of a legal reformer. During his decades-long judicial career, Lord Denning faced the challenges of his time with the aim of pursuing freedom and progress, achieving fairness and justice, and boldly reformed British law, making significant contributions to its reform. The British legal community recognizes him as the "greatest legal reformer in the United Kingdom after World War II." Lord Denning's contributions to legal reform were primarily in the United Kingdom, but the influence of his ideas extended far beyond its borders. These ideas were products of modern societal development, and as such, they have been highly valued by legal scholars in many Western developed countries, especially those in the common law system. Although the legal systems of our country and Western capitalist countries have fundamental differences, these differences do not hinder us from absorbing and learning from some progressive ideas proposed by Western legal scholars. In The Due Process of Law, Lord Denning will tell you how, under equity, a deserted wife obtained the right to protection, and how the House of Lords then rudely deprived her of that right! He will also tell you how, according to the basic methods of criminal law, they abolished an unjust exemption clause, and how the Supreme Court restored it! He will also tell you how newspapers were able to freely comment on issues of public interest, and how this right was demanded by the "voice of reason"! He will also tell you how, due to the discovery of private trusts of privacy and presumed fraudulent trusts of custody, the law of real property was reformed, and how this reform is no longer subjected to the criticism of the powerful today!